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Cheat Sheet Virgin's service worked on a mobile telly standard called DAB-IP, which shares the network with DAB digital radio. And then there's the aforementioned DAB-IP, which doesn't have the spectrum limitations currently holding up DVB-H but can't carry as...
[22 Nov 2007]
News BT Movio was based on the rival Digital Audio Broadcasting - IP (DAB-IP) standard, which reused digital radio spectrum to deliver a handful of TV channels and a range of digital radio stations. BT is to abandon its fledgling mobile broadcast TV...
[27 Jul 2007]
News But industry commentators say other mobile TV platforms such as the Qualcomm-backed MediaFLO and DAB-IP, as used by Virgin Mobile, should not be ignored. The European Commission has thrown its weight behind mobile TV by backing the DVB-H technology...
[19 Jul 2007]
News It's not the only standard that has been used in Blighty: BT has chosen DAB-IP for its Movio service and Sky has dabbled with Qualcomm's MediaFLO. The EC has recommended the industry pick a single mobile TV standard - or risk holding back adoption...
[19 Mar 2007]
News The UK currently has just one broadcast mobile TV offering, from BT Movio and Virgin Mobile, using the DAB-IP standard. Despite what participants claim are two successful trials of mobile TV in the UK, no more commercial launches for the service...
[13 Feb 2007]
News The telco launched its Movio service over DAB-IP, with Virgin Mobile as the first customer. It also saw the launch of mobile TV, some fetching handsets and plenty of 'free' services. Jo Best looks back - and makes some predictions for 2007.
[15 Dec 2006]
News DVB-H is just one of many competing standards of mobile TV being trialled around the world, including DAB-IP, used by BT and Virgin Mobile, and MediaFLO, the Qualcomm-owned standard being piloted by Sky.
[11 Sep 2006]
News A number of mobile broadcast systems are already being trialled in the UK, including DVB-H by O2, DAB-IP by BT and MediaFLO by BSKyB. No need to miss Celebrity Love Island or Emmerdale again. Mobile network 3 has buddied up with broadcaster ITV for...
[07 Aug 2006]
News Movio, which completed a successful trial earlier in the year, uses the same frequencies as DAB digital radio but enhances them to provide a limited number of TV channels, a system known as DAB-IP. DAB-IP has long been expected to beat its current...
[10 Jul 2006]
News Mobile operators are already evaluating broadcasting technologies including DAB-IP, T-DMB, DVB-H and TDtv, alongside the option of relying on enhanced 3G networks. DAB-IP is potentially the cheapest option in the few markets where DAB has been...
[28 Jun 2006]
News I'm sure if DAB-IP or T-DMB take off, or Europe gets a satellite system, they'll have to rethink that. Both DAB-IP and T-DMB are currently being trialled in the UK. This year's World Cup will send the mobile TV market into the big time, say the...
[07 Jun 2006]
Leader When it comes to broadcast mobile TV, standards such as DVB-H, MediaFLO, DAB-IP and DMB have been bandied about. BT supports DAB-IP and today we heard how ITV and BBC will rally around DMB - both are cut from the same cloth as the broadcast...
[05 Jun 2006]
News The first, three-month phase will explore the audiovisual side of DMB and DAB-IP, to be followed by a second phase, looking into interactive services, including 'red button' functionality and pay-per-view services such as sports or adult programming.
[05 Jun 2006]
News Unlike other mobile TV technologies such as DVB-H, currently under examination by O2 in Oxford, and DAB-IP, the basis of the BT Movio service, TDtv needs no new broadcast infrastructure. Orange will be the first operator to try out a new mobile TV...
[16 Feb 2006]
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